Word: whitely
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...narrative this week. As he did with most of the 40 cover stories he has handled in his nine years as a TIME writer, Smith assembled this one under a steady rain of TIME correspondents' files-from the tumultuous streets of Tehran, from the tense corridors of the White House and the State Department, from the scenes of hostile confrontations between angry Americans and Iranian students in the U.S. Correspondent Peter Stoler, for many years TIME's Medicine writer, contributed an assessment of the Shah's medical problems. Associate Editor Burton Pines, the magazine's defense...
...discussed some of the problems the U.S. was facing. As Scoop Jackson described the dilemma: "Who do you talk to? Who do you deal with? It's a situation of great instability. You don't know what's going to happen from one moment to the next." One White House aide expressed his anxiety in the jargon of the Pentagon's war gamers: "It's a classic case of gaming versus an irrational opponent. As the irrationality approaches 100%, your ability to game nears zero...
...frustration about the plight of the hostages increased, there was a sense that the Administration should do something ?anything?to free them. The White House, for sound tactical and strategic reasons, rejected the military options (see box). There were demands for the mass deportation of the 50,000 Iranian students in the U.S.?or at least those who had taken advantage of their visas to picket and demonstrate against the U.S. That was also rejected, since it would blatantly violate U.S. immigration laws...
...Instead, as it has had to do in a number of other recent crises, the Administration decided on restraint. Initially, the White House asked Iranian Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan to intervene. But last Tuesday, after months of trying to steer his country on a rational course, Bazargan resigned in frustration and anger, thus bringing down his government. Carter then designated former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and onetime State Department Iranian Expert William Miller as his personal envoys, both of whom knew Khomeini; the Ayatullah refused to see them. After that, the U.S. consented to try the good offices...
...Harvard was really committed to the arts, and thus to the humanities as a living tradition, it would establish at least one school of fine art, be it theater or painting or music, slap bang in the middle of the college campus. I expect I will have a long white beard and be drinking ambrosia long before it happens...